Like colicky children insisting on "fairness," conservatives think "Impossibly Pure Principles" are a good thing.
In real life, they are not.
Here's why...
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Thomas Merton
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In an appearance on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show “On the Record” Tuesday, Sean Hannity attempted to walk back his announcement earlier in the day that he was leaving New York for Texas or Florida.
Talking Points Memo reported that Hannity was reacting to comments by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) last week in which the governor said that far-right extremist Republicans aren’t welcome in the state.
“I think people might have interpreted it that I’m leaving the next day. If I could I probably would, but I like to consider myself a responsible person,” Hannity said Tuesday evening. Too many people depend on his show, he said, as their means of making a living.
Instead, he said, he and his wife will continue to live in the “United Socialist State of New York,” but just complain about it more, particularly what he feels to be an unfair tax burden imposed by the state.
“It’s like I’m facilitating the robbery of the hard-earned money that I’m making, and I’m not gonna do it anymore,” he groused. “As soon as I am able, sometime probably when my son graduates from high school, I’m getting out of here as quick as I can.”
Watch the video, embedded below: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/22/sean-hannity-backtracks-on-threat-to-leave-new-york-over-gov-cuomos-remarks/